Primary Literature: Selected Works of Holbach

• Le Christianisme dévoilé, Nancy, 1761.
• Système de la nature, 2 volumes, London, 1770.
• System of Nature, translated by H.D. Robinson, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970.
• Le Bons Sens, London, 1772.
• La Politique naturelle, London, 1773.
• Système social, 3 volumes, London, 1773.
• La Morale universelle, 3 volumes, Amsterdam, 1776.
• Éthocratie, Amsterdam, 1776.

Other Primary Sources

• Bergier, abbé, Examen du matérialisme, 2 volumes, Paris, 1769.
• Goethe, J.W. von, Werke, 14 volumes, Hamburg, 1967.
• Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan, Edwin Curley (ed.), Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
• Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Peter Nidditch (ed.), Clarendon: Oxford, 1975.
• Spinoza, Benedictus, Spinoza Opera, Volume 2, Carl Gebhart (ed.), Heidelberg: Carl Winters, 1925.

Secondary Literature

• Blank, Andreas, 2016, “D’Holbach on Self-Esteem, Justice, and Cosmopolitanism,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 49(4): 439–453.
• –––, 2017, “D’Holbach on self-esteem and the moral economy of oppression,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25(6): 1116–1137.
• Darnton, Robert, 1991, Edition et Sédition: L’Univers de la Littérature Clandestine au XVIIIe Siècle, Paris: Gallimard. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “Une Speculation sur l’Irreligion: Le Système de la nature de d’Holbach,” in Gens de Lettres: Gens du Livre, Robert Darnton (ed.), Paris: Odile Jacob, pp. 220–244. (Scholar)
• Devellennes, Charles, 2014, “Utility contra utilitarianism: Holbach’s international ethics,” Journal of International Political Theory, 10(2): 188–205. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “D’Holbach Radical: contrat social et éthocratie dans la pensée politique du baron,” in Les lumiers radicales et le politique, Maria Garcia-Alonso (ed.), Paris: Honore Champion, pp. 321–340.
• Fonnesu, Luca, 2006, “The Problem of Theodicy,” in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Philosophy (Volume 2), Knud Haakonssen (ed.), New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 749–778. (Scholar)
• Gourdon, Emilie and Michael LeBuffe, 2019, “Holbach,” in A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, Graham Oppy (ed.), Oxford: Wiley, pp. 28–42. (Scholar)
• Israel, Jonathan, 2006, Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017 “Rousseau and d’Holbach: The Revolutionary Implications of la philosophie anti-Thérésienne,” in Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt, Helena Rosenblatt and Paul Schweigert (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 149–174. (Scholar)
• Kors, Alan, 1976, D’Holbach’s Coterie, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• –––, 2005, “Atheism and Scepticism in the Late French Enlightenment,” in Scepticisme et modernité, Marc André Bernier and Sébastien Charles (eds.), Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne. (Scholar)
• Ladd, Everett C., Jr., 1962, “Helvétius and d’Holbach,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 23(2): 221–238. (Scholar)
• Llana, James, 2000, “Natural History and the Encyclopédie,” Journal of the History of Biology, 33(1): 1–25. (Scholar)
• Onfray, Michel, 2007, Atheist Manifesto: The Case against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Jeremy Leggatt (trans.), New York: Arcade Publishing. (Scholar)
• Sandrier, Alain, 2004, Le style philosophique du baron d’Holbach: conditions et contraintes du prosélytisme athée en France dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Honore Champion. (Scholar)
• Treuherz, Nick, 2016 “The diffusion and impact of Baron d’Holbach’s texts in Great Britain, 1765–1800,” in Radical Voices, Radical Ways, Laurent Curelly and Nigel Smith (eds.), Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 125–148. (Scholar)
• Vercruysse, J., 1971, Bibliographie descriptive des écrits du baron d’Holbach, Paris: Lettres modernes. (Scholar)